Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification

该奖项将建立一个研究培训小组， 生物多样性分析。 教师群体 包括分子和细胞部门的成员 生物学、生态学与进化生物学、地质学。 的 授予的资金将为本科生，研究生 和博士后实习生，并将支付部分费用， 实习生的研究 此外，资金将用于购买 培训人员使用的专门研究设备， 把其他研究和学术机构的调查人员 去学校参加研讨会 大学资源将增加 NSF在这些类别中提供的资金。 分子、发育和种群生物学家，以及 系统分类学家、生态学家和古生物学家， 研究生物多样性的独特方法。 由于学生的培训方式， 传统上，这些方法之间的联系并没有 被详细探讨过。 虽然他们的个人研究 兴趣和上面的列表一样多样化，教师有 成立了这个小组，目的是利用遗传学， 被视为多样化的历史，作为一种方法， 整合这些不同的观点。

This award will establish a Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification. The faculty group includes members of the Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Geology. The funds awarded will provide stipends for undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral trainees, and will defray part of the cost of trainee's research. In addition, funds will be used to purchase specialized research equipment to be used by trainees and to bring investigators from other research and academic institutions to the campus for seminars. University resources will augment the funds provided by NSF in most of these categories. Molecular, developmental, and population biologists, as well as systematists, ecologists and paleontologists, have developed distinctive approaches to the study of biological diversity. Owing to the way in which students have been trained traditionally, the connections among these approaches have not been explored in detail. While their individual research interests are as diverse as the list above, the faculty have formed this group with the aim of using phylogeny, which can be viewed as the history of diversification, as an approach to the integration of these disparate perspectives.